Arcangelo Sassolino
# Arcangelo Sassolino

Arcangelo Sassolino (born 1967) is an Italian artist known for his sculptures that uses technology.

## Early life

Sassolino was born in 1967 in Vicenza, Italy. He was raised in Trissino, near Vicenza, in the north-east of Italy. In his 20s, he created a three-dimensional puzzle game recalling the Rubik's Cube, and was hired by Robert Fuhrer and Nextoy, LLC, representatives of Casio Creative Products, for which worked for 6 years in New York, inventing and developing original and innovative toys and games. In 1996 Sassolino went back to Italy, where he worked on marble sculpture in Pietrasanta.

## Artistic Path

In Sassolino's works the spectators find themselves in front of well known industrial materials, such as stainless steel, glass or concrete. He uses these materials into mechanical/thermodynamical fantastic machines, that make the elements reach their limits: extreme speed, friction, gravity, heat, pressure.

Sassolino's sculptures are inorganic performances in which machines take life, get broken by contrast and conflict of forces, on the verge of a breakdown (which is a fundamental aspect of his work). He works around concepts such caducity, loss, unpredictability, danger, failure.

## Solo exhibitions

* Superdome, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 29/5/2008 – 24/8/2008
* Time Tomb, Z33 House for Contemporary Art], Hasselt. 0/5/2010 – 29/8/2010
* Piccolo animismo, Macro, Rome. 9/3/2011 – 12/6/2011
* Not Human, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 15/1/2016 – 3/4/2016
* Mechanism of Power, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. 19/2/2016 – 17/4/2016
* Canto V, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. 21/9/ 2016 – 15/1/2017
* Matter Revealed Repetto Gallery, London. 4/10/2017 – 29/10/2017

## Group exhibitions

* Materia-Niente, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice. 26/4/2001 – 30/6/2001
* Temi & variazioni
* La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro], Milan. 29/10/2010 – 30/ 1/ 2011
* Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel – 15/10/2010 – 23/1/2011; Swiss Institute, New York 6/4/2011 – 8/5/2011
* Art and the City Zürich-West. 9/6/2012 – 23/9/2012
* Francis Bacon e la condizione esistenziale nell'arte contemporanea, CCC Strozzina, Florence – 5/10/2012 – 27/1/2013
* Follia Continua ! 104 Le Centroquatre, Paris – 21/10/2015 – 21/11/2015
* The Transported Man [Broad Art Museum], East Lansing. 29/4/2017 – 22/10/2017
* Porto Marghera 100 Doge's Palace, Venice, 4/11/2017 – 28/1/2018
